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The extent of damage, as affecting natural reproduction, plantations, and timber of commercial size in the forest, is difficult to estimate; but it is an important item to be charged to the losses in commercial growth of white pine and is therefore a forestry problem which must demand special attention in the future management of wood-lots and forests, wherever the tree predominates.

The most favorable condition for serious injury by this weevil consists in a scattering or open pure stand of young white pine where the growth is healthy and rapid. suchSuch [sic] as is found in open plantations, in abandoned fields, and around the bor-